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    Oracle Database 19c Advantages vs.


    Microsoft SQL Server 2019
    Microsoft SQL Server 2019 became generally available in Nov 2019. Despite all its enhancements, SQL Server still lags
    significantly behind Oracle Database in advanced capabilities such as availability, scalability, security, performance, in-
    memory, multitenancy, and management capabilities. In addition, it also does not have an equivalent of Oracle Exadata or
    Exadata Cloud@Customer. As the database grows in size, complexity and criticality, SQL Server 2019 will not be able to
    keep pace. SQL Server is not future proof. Oracle Database is rated #1 ahead of Microsoft SQL Server in the Forrester
    Wave: Translytical Data Platforms 2019 and the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Operational DBMS 2019. Oracle Database is
    also rated #1 in popularity by DBAs and developers, per DB-Engines.

    The following is a summary of the advantages of Oracle Database 19c has over Microsoft SQL Server 2019:
    • High Availability. The Availability Groups in SQL Server is still immature and less available compared to Oracle. In
    contrast, Oracle has been building out and enhancing its Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) for decades.
    Oracle Database’s Application Continuity and active-active multi-node DB clusters are unmatched by SQL Server.
    The gap in capabilities between Oracle Database MAA and Microsoft SQL Server Availability Groups remains large.
    • Scalability. Oracle Database continues to enjoy superior scalability vs. SQL Server. It can scale much larger than
    Microsoft SQL Server, both in terms of data volumes and also concurrent users. Oracle Database can better
    support operationally large-scale environment with backup/recovery, parallelism, and database locking model, etc.
    • Database Security. Microsoft SQL Server has Always Encrypted (similar to Oracle TDE), Data Redaction, and a few
    other security features. But it is missing many important security features, such as Separation-of-Duties (Oracle
    DB Vault), Fine-Grained Auditing, Database Firewall, Data Masking & Subsets, Label Security, and many others. In
    fact, Oracle is rated the overall leader for database security by analyst firm KuppingerCole. Microsoft did not even
    make it into this evaluation.
    • Converged Database Supporting Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Workloads. Oracle Database is far ahead of
    Microsoft SQL Server for its ability to support converged OLTP and Analytical (Translytical) workloads using
    Database In-Memory, extensive multi-model capabilities (e.g. XML, JSON, spatial, graph, Machine Learning), and
    support for relational and non-relational, structured and unstructured, and Big Data in the same platform.
    • Multitenant Database. Oracle Multitenant enables consolidation to reduce both licensing and hardware costs
    while lowering management costs, reducing security risk, and increasing DBA & developer productivity – managing
    one database instead of multiple instances of SQL Server. SQL Server is missing a Multitenant/Pluggable DB.
    • Compatibility Between On-Premises and Cloud. Oracle Database is 100% compatible and seamlessly portable
    between on-premises and cloud. In contrast, Microsoft SQL Server is not 100% compatible with its cloud Azure
    SQL Database. There are still some important SQL Server features not supported by Azure SQL Database. As a
    result, it is not seamless to move your SQL Server applications to Azure SQL Database and vice versa.
    • Engineered Systems. Unique Oracle Exadata features with SW/HW co-engineering and optimization deliver
    highest performance, availability, scalability, and security, etc. While not all customers have such high-end
    requirements initially, they can move easily and seamlessly from Oracle SE → Oracle EE → Exadata (or Exadata
    Cloud@Customer) as the workloads grow bigger, more complex, or more mission-critical at a later day. Microsoft
    still does not have an engineered system similar to Exadata. There is a ceiling to how far the database can grow,
    hence limiting the customers’ ability to grow.
    • Lower Total Cost of Ownership. Oracle Database focuses on automation (e.g. auto tuning, auto indexing, auto
    application continuity, and auto health framework, etc.) to reduce on-going operational & manageability costs and
    TCO. SQL Server is missing many of these built-in management automation features. As a result, it will take more
    time and effort to perform on-going management and administration of the database, resulting in higher TCO.

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